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but it was president ronald reagan who turned that rhetorical war into a drug crime. why declare a drug war when drug crime is actually on the decline and the american public isn't too much concerned about it? from the outset, the war on drugs had relatively little to do with genuine concern about drug addiction and drug abuse and nearly everything to do with politics, racial politics. numerous historians and political scientists have now documented the war on drugs was part of that grand republican party strategy known as the southern strategy of using racially coded get tough appeals on issues of crime and welfare to appeal to poor and working class whites, particularly in the south, who are anxious about and resentful of many of the gains of african-americans in the civil rights movement. so when president ronald reagan declared his drug war, it was an effort to make good on campaign promises to get tough on a group of people, not so suddenly, defined by race. >> michelle, let me say one thing. i'd like you to respond to. hearing that, that tracks with the way that
but it was president ronald reagan who turned that rhetorical war into a drug crime. why declare a drug war when drug crime is actually on the decline and the american public isn't too much concerned about it? from the outset, the war on drugs had relatively little to do with genuine concern about drug addiction and drug abuse and nearly everything to do with politics, racial politics. numerous historians and political scientists have now documented the war on drugs was part of that grand...
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of ronald reagan, the tax increaser has been whitewashed out of right wing history. by 1988, he took back about half of the 1981 tax cut with tax increases. now, i think, today, our economic problems, our fiscal problems are vastly different than they were in 1981. we need different solutions. the idea we have cookie cutter policy, cut taxes, taxes, taxes, all the time. it's the only policy. it's ludicrous. >> governor, say taxes have to go up. i think they do. let's stipulate that for a second. how do you make the case? you actually had this experience. you had a big budget short fall when you came to office, you raised taxes, how do you make the case? >> two things. we had an election about it. it's going to take care of the issue. it's appropriate to put it in the context the president put it in. we are going continue a lower rate for a bunch of people. we have to look at revenue from somebody. on the state side, when i got elections a $3.65 billion deficit. the worst in the nation. i quickly realized it's too large to tax your way out of or to cut your way out. i
of ronald reagan, the tax increaser has been whitewashed out of right wing history. by 1988, he took back about half of the 1981 tax cut with tax increases. now, i think, today, our economic problems, our fiscal problems are vastly different than they were in 1981. we need different solutions. the idea we have cookie cutter policy, cut taxes, taxes, taxes, all the time. it's the only policy. it's ludicrous. >> governor, say taxes have to go up. i think they do. let's stipulate that for a...
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it's reminiscent of welfare, welfare queen of ronald reagan. the strapping young buck who bought a t-bone steak. here's rand paul. >> recently a woman faked the birth of triplets to receive $21,000 in food stamps. we need to remember that millionaires including larry fix who won $2 million are receiving food stamps because he says he's got no income. so we're paying millionaires. >> of the 45 million people on food stamps, how many would you say are millionaires, joel? >> one. look. according to usda -- and this has not been contradicted by even their inspector general who was appointed by president bush. 1%, 1% of food stamp benefits are illegally trafficked. 2% of members of the u.s. house of representatives have been found guilty of crime. so twice as much crime in the house of representatives as there is in the food stamps. >> it's a double standard. those who truly feel entitled and have gained the system are sort of let off the hook, but it is the case that in this, though, it reminds me of the voting fraud fraud where they pick, you know
it's reminiscent of welfare, welfare queen of ronald reagan. the strapping young buck who bought a t-bone steak. here's rand paul. >> recently a woman faked the birth of triplets to receive $21,000 in food stamps. we need to remember that millionaires including larry fix who won $2 million are receiving food stamps because he says he's got no income. so we're paying millionaires. >> of the 45 million people on food stamps, how many would you say are millionaires, joel? >> one....
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. >> the firing of air traffic controllers who went on strike in 1981 by ronald reagan. and there's this excellent book, "course" by joe mccartney. that really details what led up to that. it's very much worth reading. part of what you have to understand is that the massive, the decision by the reagan administration and the hard right, to take a stand against patco. to fire them and to essentially exile them forever, set in motion a series of events that led to dramatic repression of workers around the country. >> that's interesting. >> so that workers felt less and less the ability to go on strike. >> it's interesting, patco happens in '82? >> '81. >> it's interesting, i wondered right around there -- >> and patco was a union that actually endorsed, my recollection, it was a union that actually endorsed reagan. there was, there was a whole bunch of repercussions for it because that's when you saw the real dividing line in terms of unions walking to the democratic party. >> i want to say something here that's really important. on the one hand, yes. we must fight for and
. >> the firing of air traffic controllers who went on strike in 1981 by ronald reagan. and there's this excellent book, "course" by joe mccartney. that really details what led up to that. it's very much worth reading. part of what you have to understand is that the massive, the decision by the reagan administration and the hard right, to take a stand against patco. to fire them and to essentially exile them forever, set in motion a series of events that led to dramatic...
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and the reason we're going to have to do this is because ronald reagan got elected promising a balanced budget, did the opposite. george h.w. bush ran up deficits. bill clinton was bringing them down and then we came along with, oh, we're going to have budget surpluses as far as the eye can see and the federal debt doubled. when the house of cards collapsed we had this disaster. we should note, however, that since president obama came to office, the projected deficit has gone from above 1.6 trillion this year, it will be under 1 trillion. but, yes, everybody needs to pay higher taxes if they're going to have the level of government they have now and we are terribly shortchanging education, research, we are using up our infrastructure which will make us poorer and doings things like not inspecting food properly so our death rates from food-borne illness are far above those in europe. >> david, i'm going to ask you how you would explain our current tax code and how it got to be the w it is to an alien visitor from another planet right after we take this break. we asked real people if they
and the reason we're going to have to do this is because ronald reagan got elected promising a balanced budget, did the opposite. george h.w. bush ran up deficits. bill clinton was bringing them down and then we came along with, oh, we're going to have budget surpluses as far as the eye can see and the federal debt doubled. when the house of cards collapsed we had this disaster. we should note, however, that since president obama came to office, the projected deficit has gone from above 1.6...
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. >> the welfare -- the infamous strapping young buck of the mythology of ronald reagan buying a t-bone steak. this happy couple used capital one venture miles for their "destination wedding." double miles you can "actually" use. but with those single mile travel cards... [ bridesmaid ] blacked out... but i'm a bridesmaid. oh! "x" marks the spot she'll never sit. but i bought a dress! a toast... ...to the capital one venture card. fly any airline, any flight, anytime. double miles you can actually use. what a coincidence? what's in your wallet? [ all screaming ] watch the elbows ladies. until i show them this. the new oral-b pro-health clinical brush. its pro-flex sides adjust to teeth and gums for a better clean. the new pro-health clinical brush from oral-b. >>> a jaw-dropping new study this week provides insights to what is tying the scandals on wall street. a survey conducted found that at least 30% of professional services found that they feel pressured to act unethically or illegally. 39% said they believe their competitors are unlikely to engage and this week alone we have financ
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and ronald reagan governor at the time said as the black panther self-defense became more and more effective at mobilizing members of the black community, the panthers attracted even greater attention among authorities. on april 5, 1967, assemblyman mulford introduced a bill, ab 1591, in the california legislature proposing to outlaw the carrying of loaded weapons. >> just to understate where the panthers were coming from in that period, immediately after a period of reconstruction, the first thing people do is try to take the guns out of the african-american community so that the community can then be disempowered and oppressed. so what i'm saying is there's a natural sort of affinity for the notion that i have the right to secure myself among many african-americans, but we are going to -- >> explain the history of this. the history is very important. the jim crow laws, the original gun control throughout the south. the jim crow laws which established all of the laws against ownership, against carrying in certain places came after the civil war. it happened to be a democratic party institut
and ronald reagan governor at the time said as the black panther self-defense became more and more effective at mobilizing members of the black community, the panthers attracted even greater attention among authorities. on april 5, 1967, assemblyman mulford introduced a bill, ab 1591, in the california legislature proposing to outlaw the carrying of loaded weapons. >> just to understate where the panthers were coming from in that period, immediately after a period of reconstruction, the...
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that was one of the solar panels that jimmy carter put on the white house in 1979 and ronald reagan took down in 1985 because he wanted manlier forms of energy. it's not that we lack -- germ and china have better technology. >> that and put it in his private museum in china? i love that story. >> we have the technology. we have the entrepreneurs. we just don't have the political will to do anything with it because we've got the koch brothers and exxon and everybody else in the way. >> we also have a reflexive ideological resistance to government playing a big role. i actually talked to mitt romney's policy director a few weeks before the election. i asked him, you know, what do you think government can do to make coal cleaner, carbon capturing sequestration by doesn't exist on a usable scale. he said i don't think government should play a role at all. there you go. there's the barrier. >> government should play no role except tonight provide massive subsidies to the fossil fuel industry decade after decade. >> can the subsidy for cleaner coal. >> this is where the tax extenders issue whi
that was one of the solar panels that jimmy carter put on the white house in 1979 and ronald reagan took down in 1985 because he wanted manlier forms of energy. it's not that we lack -- germ and china have better technology. >> that and put it in his private museum in china? i love that story. >> we have the technology. we have the entrepreneurs. we just don't have the political will to do anything with it because we've got the koch brothers and exxon and everybody else in the way....
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ronald reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times during his presidency. he was never accused of being fiscally irresponsible. moving forward, given the recession that we are still working our way through, pulling out of, certainly it's been tremendous progress. the reality is we have to stimulate the economy in this short term. we have to create jobs and put americans back to work. that is what the people in the eighth congressional district want to see. >> it strikes me, molly, you were on the campaign trail a lot. you did great reporting and talking to a lot of folks. i wonder, like, the politics of this issue. i'm bias everyone can see because of how i feel. my sense is it becomes the words dead and deficit are ways of naming economic anxiety opposed to a commitment to what a balance ledger looks like. >> yeah. i think that's right. everybody cares about the deficit until it comes to the money they want to spend. whether it's through the tax breaks or government spending they want to put in the budget. given the caucus meetings haven't started yet is,
ronald reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times during his presidency. he was never accused of being fiscally irresponsible. moving forward, given the recession that we are still working our way through, pulling out of, certainly it's been tremendous progress. the reality is we have to stimulate the economy in this short term. we have to create jobs and put americans back to work. that is what the people in the eighth congressional district want to see. >> it strikes me, molly, you were on...
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>> ronald reagan put in a tax rate of 28%, 30% is somehow confiscatory. we're did he troying the economy and making the country poor because we're not putting enough money into the basic services that allow businesses to operate and create a prosperous society. and mitt romney, his tax rate is much lower than we've been talking about. he pays the taxes for his five sons. in their $100 million trust. get their money tax-free from dad. so -- >> the american way. >> that's right. >> betsy, what do you think? >> first of all, to criticize this as not solving the deficit, is absurd. if we do that, nothing solves the deficit. we're not going to come up with the one thing that solves the deficit. we're going to reform taxes in a way that's going to give us a better tax system. something that's fair for everybody. and at the end. day, it's not about a 30% rate. it's about the fact that these guys get all the tax expenditures. we're mailing them huge checks for things like expensive houses. why on earth are we giving millionaires checks for their homes that are 25
>> ronald reagan put in a tax rate of 28%, 30% is somehow confiscatory. we're did he troying the economy and making the country poor because we're not putting enough money into the basic services that allow businesses to operate and create a prosperous society. and mitt romney, his tax rate is much lower than we've been talking about. he pays the taxes for his five sons. in their $100 million trust. get their money tax-free from dad. so -- >> the american way. >> that's right....
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the nra fought him tooth and nail -- they fought ronald reagan on the brady bill and on the assault-ban bill which ewe allowed to lapse. the other thing is, we can't miss this moment. everybody around this table knows if 20 children are killed and we don't get a bill now, we're never going to get it so i agree with the governor. hooirs absolutely right, which is why i'm here this morning. we have to develop a strategy, through the month of january, to keep the national attention focused on this issue, so they don't, as the governor said, rope-a-dope. >> maier reed is a signer and rob emanuel and a bunch of mayors across the country 37 hundreds of them. but what i said, time is not our friend on this. a all-out, hands on deck, aggressive campaign from december to january, we cannot mess around with this. >> i want to bring in rebecca peters, one of the arc 2ek9 ae texts of the gun legislation in australia. after the break. uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express by december 22nd for christmas delivery. trust duracell to power their donated toys? d
the nra fought him tooth and nail -- they fought ronald reagan on the brady bill and on the assault-ban bill which ewe allowed to lapse. the other thing is, we can't miss this moment. everybody around this table knows if 20 children are killed and we don't get a bill now, we're never going to get it so i agree with the governor. hooirs absolutely right, which is why i'm here this morning. we have to develop a strategy, through the month of january, to keep the national attention focused on this...